Popping feeling in head/tongue feels pushed down

this is crazy!! i've felt this sensation since i can remember maybe 8 or 9... i am now 20 and i get it throughout the day uncountable times..i'ts like a scraping bubbling feeling going up my head like little bubbles releasing or something hard to explain. but no pain at all. but i do get frequent headaches. probably everyday ... i did go to the doctors once for it but they said it was a feeling meaning the beginning of a migraine or something..but i don't think that's it. i've learned to live with it and just don't say anthing about it anymore because no one else feels it and it makes me sound crazy! if anyone has any information on what this could be please let me know!

I'm 29 and I also get the popping on the left side of my head. I can feel tension and know when it is going to happens. It mostly happens when I am talking, showering, or singing. If I hold still sometimes it won't pop and I'll just feel dull pain all day. When it does pop, only I can hear it, and I get excruciating pain for a few seconds. I can't talk or anything when it happens cause it feels like my head is exploding. I did have a contusion of the brain when I was 13 and took migraine medicine throughout high school. I have not been to a doctor for this. My uncle had a brain aneurysm so I am afraid of what they will find.

I think these problems might be due to the various muscles in head, face, neck....try to see a doctor who specialized in muscle treatment...i guess there are myologist who can treat these feelings.....

I'm not sure if all problems are due to muscle tension, but if you dont have any other option, try my words...

Hello, I am 19 and have had a similar problem for almost as long as I can remember. On occasion when i turn my head it ends up jerking and is followed by burning sensation on the back of my head and half of my tongue burns and feels like someone is pushing down on it very hard; it only lasts a around 10-15 seconds and doesn't happen that often. I have gone to a neurologist when I was younger but he couldn't find anything... I thought I was the only one with this problem. If anyone knows what it could be I would really appreciate it.

My daughter is 10 and has been having head pops since she was able to talk and describe them (since age 3 1/2 approximately). She has a sudden head pop, then pain, then a warmth in the area. They occur in the back, right side (mostly) of her head. Most often they happen when she is turning her head but sometimes when she is still.

One time she was playing outside in the snow and my husband felt the back of her head when it occured and he said it felt like muscle spasms. We have been to a neurologist, neuro-surgeon, allergist, chiropractor, physical therapist, and pediatrician. They did an MRI of her head and said it looked fine. The chiropractic, atlas orthogonal, treatments helped decrease the frequency and severity of the head pops. She has headaches a lot too.

If anyone has an answer to this, please help.

When I was a child it happened a handful of times. Usually when I was outside playing. I remember playing touch football outside and I turned my head abruptly to the side. I felt something in the base of my skull pop and then got a terrible burning sensation in the base of the skull followed by my tongue burning and then going numb. It only lasted about a minute or two, it hurt so bad I cried. I told my parents but never had it checked out and it has not happened in my adulthood. I did find something online that was a similar story but no tongue numbness and will post it below:

kellimarie1982 - Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:15 pm Share |

For as long as I can remember I occassionally get a painful bursting feeling in my head. I usually get them when I turn quickly to look at something, pick something up off the ground and stand back up or sneeze. It doesnt happen everytime just here and there and I wonder why. I ask other people if this ever happens to them and they say no. It almost like a explosion not in my whole head but in a certain area but not always the same area. It feels like a burst then it feels like it speads somewhat, its hotkinda hurts then it fades away. What is it and why is it that no-one know what im talking about.

John Kenyon, CNA - Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:45 pm Share |

Hello -

This phenomenon you describe is much more common than you might think. It's the result of a momentary "plinging" of a nerve near the base of your skull, where it takes off from one of the higher cervical nerve outlets, and it is almost always shocking (and often is decribed as an electrical shock). Sometimes it can be very painful as well, and is almost always infrequent, and so unexpected. Sometimes the pain, weakness or shocked sensation can last for the better part of a minute (seeming, I'm sure, like a lot longer).

Annoying as can be, but not serious, unless of course it happens as you try to look over your shoulder while changing lanes on a freeway. I've never heard a proper name given to this phenomenon, nor a specific explanation, other than a nerve serving the neck/base of the skull is momentarily "plucked" or "plinged" by structures in the area below the mastoid process behind and below the ear.

Hope this is helpful. Just be glad it doesn't happen often.

I Have A Cyst Inside My Spinal Cord At C5-C7 That Partly Blocks The Downward Flow Of Spinal Fluid Out Of My Brain. It Seems That Bubbles Form Blocking It Further. When The Bubbles Pop Into Smaller Ones They Pass By And The Fluid Goes Down.

Normal Mri Machines Didn't Show The Cyst So I Went To A Private Office That Had A Newer MRi Machine With Larger Magnets. I Have Done This On My Own Since Doctors Refuse To Believe Me About The Bubbles Popping. It Takes 1-2 Days After Stress/Strain To Build The Pressure On My Medulla Area Of The Brain At Which Time I Start Having Problems With My Nervous System Shutting Things Down. In The Past I Have Used A Massager On The Back Of My Head And Neck To Pop The Bubbles, But Now That The Cyst Is Getting Larger I Need More Resonation To Dispurse The Bubbles.

anonymous wrote:

this is crazy!! i've felt this sensation since i can remember maybe 8 or 9... i am now 20 and i get it throughout the day uncountable times..i'ts like a scraping bubbling feeling going up my head like little bubbles releasing or something hard to explain. but no pain at all. but i do get frequent headaches. probably everyday ... i did go to the doctors once for it but they said it was a feeling meaning the beginning of a migraine or something..but i don't think that's it. i've learned to live with it and just don't say anthing about it anymore because no one else feels it and it makes me sound crazy! if anyone has any information on what this could be please let me know!

I get them feelings too...I thought i was the only one...

im 15 years old and have just experienced a popping sensation in the top right side of my head straigh tafter i felt this pop it felt like there was warm liquid running down behind my ear (inside) any ideas?

I am so glad I found this...My daughter is 16 years old and has the same thing going on...She tells me mom my head popped and it makes left side of her tongue go numb, vision in left eye blurry and pain that radiates down her spine...well now its starting to effect her heart...her blood pressure shot up to 142/92...she never get s the headache afterwards but does sometimes feel sleepy after it happens....It also becomes very hot....and its in the back of her head on the left side...she says she can here it pop and it sounds fizzy and sounds like a sparkler...thats how she descibes it...we are stumped and can not figure it out...anybody have any clues of what it is......

Same symptoms. Popping and then hot liquid. Also, I am unable to speak when it happens. It usually happens for about 10-45 seconds. I have just been 'diagnosed' with occipital neuralgia. Which is probably caused by degenerative disc/cervical osteoarthritis. Hope that helps....

has anyone had any straight answers to this problem.  My daughter is 4 and has had this happen to her since she started talking (so probably earlier) she just started describing them as hot pop in her head. she cries and holds her head. they last a few seconds and she goes back to normal,playing talking and being her bubbly self.  They happen when she is active or still and very sudden and unexpected.  Very weird. I have asked two doctors, my gp and her ped and they do not seem worried.  One told me he has had other patients complaint about the same think.  It DOES worry me obviously, my daughter is in pain. PLEASE ANYONE!!1 

My 12 year old gets the same thing.  Popping in her head and a feeling of warmth after the popping.  She said it happens when she is active typically, but sometimes even in class.  Our pediatrician said her spine is off so that is likely the cause but we are watching it more now and will see someone else if it gets worse.

i have exactly the same feeling in the left side of my head at the back, it started happening after i had whip-lash, i havent been 2 the doctors yet as i thought i was the only one who ever had this popping feeling in my head and will be pretty hard to explain the feeling